Yesterday’s article tried to present a comprehensive view of both the causes and the symptoms of the resistance we all at times exhibit towards the human work. In today’s video, Ffion Jones talks you through some of the signs you can look out for to diminish the effects of this in your own...
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We have to enter a continuous development mindset. As Gustavo Razzetti of Fearless Culture puts it “When it comes to culture, strive for evolution not revolution”. We have to comprehend that the human work is eminently necessary and that it will never be done. Neither of these points is an easy...
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Anyone who hasn’t lived under a proverbial rock has seen the many discussions regarding "quiet quitting" over the past few weeks. I wrote about it as well in our Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter. I put it to us that there’s no quiet quitting in technology. Or not as much as everywhere...
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Like we said yesterday, “quiet quitting” is most certainly not news and over the years it had many a names - “coasting”, “doing the bare minimum” or “inner resignation” but they all amount to the same thing - “disengagement”and its more insidiously disastrous cousin of “active disengagement” -...
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For crying out loud can we stop inventing new terms, running in the direction of the next new shiny thing and instead focus on what matters: helping people do the human work so that their lives get better at work? Can we please just hanker down on the work and land the wins of the pandemic? Can...
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There’s a lot we don’t talk about in the business world. A lot of silences, a lot of impostor syndrome at play and a heap load of impression management from everyone’s side at all times. We say a lot we may not truly mean and we bite our tongue and remain silent about far too many things that...
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